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I think we're entering a
really new interesting period
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with cultural commissioning,
more and more councils
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across the country
taking that and wanting
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to have arts practices
and social proscribing
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to improve people's well-being.
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I think for me, a slight
concern is that volunteers
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can do this work.
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And what's crucial, and what
I'm passionate about is driving
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this is, is an
artistic practise.
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Everyone who's working in
this way, it's an inquiry,
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it's a process, and
we're developing
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as artists in this field.
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And it's not something
that can be duplicated.
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That doesn't mean that there
aren't elements of the way
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that you work.
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And we aren't artists
on high coming in.
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But what we are doing is a
practice in and of itself.
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Professional, high
quality arts experience
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is absolutely at the
core of what we do.
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And in terms of why it
needs to be professional,
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I think it's because of the
skill set and the experience,
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and that allowing
of people living
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with dementia to be creative.
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Artists have a unique
set of skills, I think,
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that are completely
different to a teacher--
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certainly a dentist-- that
are about enabling a person
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to express themselves in a
way that maybe allows them
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to take risks or to
explore their sense of self
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without the fear of being
wrong or without there needing
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to be a kind of correct
answer, which is really
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liberating for people living
with dementia, who can often
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avoid situations where there
is a right or wrong in case
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they get it wrong.
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